BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Edited by Vered Amit LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2004 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2004 Routledge Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-64459-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-67291-7 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-22379-2 (Print Edition) THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ROTEM AMIT, WHO LOVED, APPRECIATED, AND DEVOURED ALL MANNER OF REFERENCE WORKS THROUGHOUT HER LIFE. Contents Editorial advisory committee vi List of contributors viii Introduction and Guidelines xxiii Acknowledgements xxx Entries A-Z 1 Index of interests 801 Index of institutions 831 Index of names 839 Index of concepts 855 Editorial advisory committee Eduardo Archetti University of Oslo, Norway Robert Borofsky Hawaii Pacific University, USA Regna Darnell University of Western Ontario, Canada Guillermo de la Peña Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico Noel Dyck Simon Fraser University, Canada Katsuyoshi Fukui Kyoto University, Japan John Gray University of Adelaide, Australia Marian Kempny Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Daniel Lefkowitz University of Virginia, USA Margaret Lock McGill University, Canada Philip Moore Curtin University of Technology, Australia Karen Fog Olwig University of Copenhagen, Denmark Nigel Rapport University of St Andrews, UK Steven Robins University of Western Cape, South Africa Werner Schiffauer vii Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany Thomas K.Schippers Université de Nice, France Moshe Shokeid University of Tel Aviv, Israel Lygia Sigaud Museu Nacional, Brazil Sarah Strauss University of Wyoming, USA Hugo Garcia Valencia National Institute of Anthropology, Mexico Helena Wulff University of Stockholm, Sweden Contributors Robert Ackerman University of Cambridge, UK Mario I.Aguilar University of St Andrews, UK Emily Alward Independent scholar, USA Vered Amit Concordia University, Canada Robert Anderson Simon Fraser University, Canada Sally Anderson University of Copenhagen, Denmark Eduardo Archetti University of Oslo, Norway Rita Astuti London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Florence E.Babb University of Iowa, USA Les Back Goldsmiths College, UK Stephen G.Baines University of Brasilia, Brazil Roger Ballard University of Manchester, UK Mukulika Banerjee University College, London, UK Marcus Banks University of Oxford, UK Alan Barnard University of Edinburgh, UK ix Henyo T.Barretto Filho University of Brasilia, Brazil Laurent Barry École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France Ira Bashkow University of Virginia, USA Luís Batalha Pólo Universitário do Alto da Ajuda, Portugal Joanna Bator Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Gerd Baumann University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Simona Bealcovschi Université de Montreal, Canada Jeremy Beckett University of Sydney, Australia Irène Bellier CNRS, France Nicole Belmont École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France Jonathan Benthall University College, London, UK Bernardo Bernardi Retired scholar, Italy Lisa Bier Southern Connecticut State University, USA Aletta Biersack University of Oregon, USA Dorothy K.Billings Wichita State University, USA Nancy J.Black Metropolitan State University, USA Hector Blackhurst University of Manchester, UK Aleksandar Boskovic Rhodes University, South Africa Daniel Boyarin University of California, Berkeley, USA Zoe Bray European University Institute, Italy